LOS ANGELES – While country/pop starlet Taylor Swift is still enjoying the ratings boost that resulted from partially-literate Kanye West’s interruption of her acceptance speech during the 2009 VMAs, West has moved on to a target less likely to react to attack - Patrick Swayze, who lost his battle with cancer and died on September 14.
 Swayze, the well-loved acting icon whose rise to fame was fueled by such films as “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost,” passed away one day after the Video Music Awards aired. It was during the VMAs that West martyrized Taylor Swift by intimating that Beyonce should have won the award for Best Female Video instead of Swift.
Complaints and comments have been flooding the blogosphere regarding West’s condemnable action on-stage, but the criticisms have not only been directed at West. Many bloggers feel that West has already been given too much attention and that Patrick Swayze’s passing has been unfairly overlooked by the public.
“It’s an oversight that needs to be corrected,” internet user 2Juicy4Yooo uttered in a series of tweets. “Patrick Swayze was relevant, he was an icon, and he was a professional. Who the hell is Kanye West? He’s a suckling, a runt, and someone should put that motherf*cking baby in a corner.”
West, apparently disheartened by those encouraging a national shift of focus from the VMA debacle to Swayze’s death, lashed out in a recent blog entry, which mirrored his unscripted wrath to Taylor Swift onstage. West wrote: “Yo, Patrick, I’ma let you have your moment, but Michael Jackson had one of the best deaths of all time - one of the best deaths of all time!”
 I spit magic
West continued his on-line rant by adding: “most celebrities, rich white celebrities, mostly, get to take breaks, they take time, they don’t get worn down. I’ve never had a break my whole life and it’s catching up to me. I’m a famous celebrity, I’m not white, but I’m plenty rich…I speak it like it is, I spit MAGIC and some people don’t like that and they get hurt. I’M SOOOOO SORRY about that, but I need a rest.”
He encouraged fans to show support by buying both Beyonce albums and Michael Jackson albums. “Patrick Swayze, everyone loves him, he’s great, but he can’t hold a candle to Michael. If you’d put it to a vote, Michael would win for best death and God is losing credibility by not setting this sh*t straight.”
West finished his tirade with this comment: “President Bush didn’t care about black people. President Obama is black and he still doesn’t care about black people. He called me an [sic] jackass. Well, at least I can get something reformed. I can get myself reformed. Put me in charge of health care and the whole system will be working inside a week. Print that.”
West’s comments remained on his Kanye Universe City blog for about 35 minutes before it was removed. It is unclear whether West himself removed the comments, or if one of his handlers deleted the post.
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